Space

As NASA’s Spitzer telescope’s mission ends, here’s a look back at its discoveries 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2020
For more than 16 years, the orbiting observatory has revealed wonders of the cosmos

By David Aragorn
Physicists: Ancient life might have escaped Earth and journeyed to alien stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2020
A pair of researchers presented a wild new theory in a new paper.

By David Aragorn
NASA Selects Axiom for First Commercial Module for the International Space Station 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 29, 2020
The module will attach itself to the ISS’ Node 2 forward port.

By David Aragorn
Black holes shouldn’t echo, but this one might. Score 1 for Stephen Hawking?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
This isn’t how black holes are supposed to behave.

By David Aragorn
Hot Jupiter Planet Is So Hot Its Prone to Planet Meltdowns 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
Astronomers say this planet is the hottest identified so far.

By David Aragorn
US Space Force logo looks like one from Star Trek 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 28, 2020
The newly unveiled logo for US Space Force appears to have boldly gone where Star Trek went before.

By David Aragorn
It Only Takes A Few Thousand Years For Jupiter-Like Planets To Form Around Red Dwarf Stars 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2020
With over 4,000 confirmed exoplanets, we’re starting to get an idea of which types are common and which are rare. We’ve learned that our solar system is rather unusual in ways you wouldn’t expect. Take, for example, the presence of large planets orbiting small stars.

By David Aragorn
NASA’s Kepler witnesses vampire star system undergoing super-outburst 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 25, 2020
NASA’s Kepler spacecraft was designed to find exoplanets by looking for stars that dim as a planet crosses the star’s face. Fortuitously, the same design makes it ideal for spotting other astronomical transients—objects that brighten or dim over time. A new search of Kepler archival data has uncovered an unusual super-outburst from a previously unknown dwarf nova. The system brightened by a factor of 1,600 over less than a day before slowly fading away.

By David Aragorn
Could Invisible Extraterrestrial Life Forms Really Exist Among Us?0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2020
Life is pretty easy to recognize. It moves, it grows, it eats, it excretes, it reproduces. Simple. In biology, researchers often use the acronym ‘MRS-GREN’ to describe it. It stands for movement, respiration, sensitivity, growth, reproduction, excretion and nutrition. But Helen Sharman, Britain’s first astronaut and a chemist at Imperial College London, recently said that alien life forms that are impossible to spot may be living among us. How could that be possible?

By David Aragorn
China Releases a Treasure Trove of New Images On The Far Side of The Moon 0
- From Around the Web, Space
- January 23, 2020
China’s lunar robots images cover about a year of exploration on the far side of the moon.

By David Aragorn